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Friday, December 30, 2016

Have you
had your Joy Juice today?May you have
an abundance of joy in the New Year! And let’s not forget the joy-filled
blessings of this past year!

If I could
have one wish for each of you as 2017 begins, it would be that this year will
be a year of God’s favor….filled with JOY and contentment. And that will be my
prayer! But we also know that there will come days of struggle and
heartache.We won’t always be
happy.But we can rest in the joy that
Jesus is there to walk with us through those difficult times.

We do have
a choice in some things. We can choose to be grumpy and complain when things
don’t go our way; or we can face each challenge with a smile and believe that
God knows what is best!We can approach
a problem with doom and gloom, focusing on all the negatives…or we can look
toward the “light” and trust that God has it all under His control.

In John
16:33 Jesus said: “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome
the world.”Because of Jesus, we have hope in knowing that
the ultimate victory has already been won; we can claim the peace and joy of
Christ even in the most troublesome times.

Let’s
choose to begin our new year with a joyful perspective.When those difficult situations arise, let’s determine
to walk through them with the attitude of Christ! He IS walking right beside us,
filling us with His strength and JOY.

This is Joyce Ashley of JoyJoy
Ministries reminding you to drink in the joy of Jesus faithfully, each day of the New Year!Have a JOY-filled 2017!

Thursday, December 29, 2016

Have you had your Joy
Juice today?Make sure that you’ve got
plenty to help you celebrate the coming of a new year!

As we look
back over this past year, there may be regrets about decisions that were made,
circumstances that didn’t work out the way we had hoped…maybe even
relationships that were damaged.We may
wonder why God allowed certain things to happen in 2016, because we truly do
not understand.

Maybe
you’ve been praying for a specific request and God has not granted that
“heart’s desire”.Do you quit
praying?Do you give up on God?Or like Elizabeth
in the book of Luke, do you remain faithful?

The people in Elizabeth’s day measured a woman’s value by
her ability to bear children.Elizabeth was a descendant
in the priestly line of Aaron. She and her husband, Zachariah, a Temple priest, lived an
upright and blameless life. The great disappointment in their lives was that
although they had prayed fervently for a child, Elizabeth had reached an advanced age without
having conceived.

But Elizabeth remained faithful….and trusted
God.He had a plan in which He would
give her a special son, John, at just the perfect time!John was the forerunner of Jesus.

We can glean much truth
from the example of Elizabeth:

·God does not forget those who have been faithful
to him.

AND

·God’s timetable and methods do not have to
conform to what we expect.

Drink your Joy
Juice faithfully and trust in God to accomplish His purpose for you in the New
Year…in His perfect timing.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Have you
had your Joy Juice today?Don’t save it
for special occasions only! It’s what we need every day of the year.

During Christmas we talk a lot about the birth
of a baby named Jesus. But let’s not forget that baby soon grew into a man….and
he went about teaching people “truth”.Luke 4:14-15 tells us: “Jesus returned to Galilee
in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole
countryside.He taught in their
synagogues, and everyone praised him.”

If we were
to stop reading there, we might think that everyone loved Jesus….that
everywhere he went, people thought he was wonderful and believed that He was
who he said he was. BUT, when we continue to read in that very same chapter of
Luke, we find that when he went “home”…to Nazareth where he had been brought up
as a young boy…he was rejected.

Have you
ever felt rejected?Rejection is hard to
accept.It hurts.It crushes our spirit.We begin to doubt our self-worth. When we find
ourselves in this unfortunate state of rejection, let’s think of Jesus and know
that He truly understands.

Isaiah 53:3 tells us: “He
was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with
suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we
esteemed him not.”

Where’s the joy in
rejection? It’s found in the truth that Jesus understands our hurt and that HE
will never leave us or forsake us!

SHE SPEAKS GRADUATE

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I'm Joyce Ashley of JoyJoy Ministries....otherwise known as "Gigi" by my grandchildren. It is my desire to share on this site with children (and the young at heart) a "double portion" of the JOY of the Lord!